Almighty lives and cannot change;Men rise and fall like crashing waves.Their boasting is but vanity;Man is no match for Deity.The righteous live in endless day,But fools, like chaff, blow soon away.Almighty rules unruly men,Who, though they scoff, will answer Him.

Almighty loves the sinful soulAnd yearns to make the broken whole.He came to rescue, not condemn—The sinless Son, the sinner’s Friend.He suffered in the rebel’s placeTo take God’s wrath and give God’s graceAlmighty loves, and so must we,That fellow sinners may go free.

Background

I was struck by this poem from Pastor Chris Anderson that I saw on Facebook just after the Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage in the summer of 2015, and was prompted by a friend to write a tune for it. I came up with one that I thought was fitting — a little somber or sober-feeling, starting and ending in the minor key, but not necessarily sad. I offered the tune to Chris, and he liked the match. After some back-and-forth, tweaking text and tune, we released our first hymn collaboration, "God Supreme."